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bixonimania

A supposed benign eye disease, in which redness develops on and around the eyelids as a result of excessive blue light exposure.

Bixonimania was supposedly named by Lazljiv Izgubljenovic researching at Asteria Horizon University in Nova City, California.

In reality, bixonimania was a fake disease dreamt up to sound ridiculous to any human reader. An eye or skin disease wouldn’t be called “-mania”. Lazljiv Izgubljenovic, Asteria Horizon University, and Nova City aren’t real. However, a Web crawler scraped the paper from a preprint server, and LLMs uncritically accepted the papers—thanking “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy”, “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery”, and “the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”—as real.
ChatGPT, my eyes itch. Do I have bixonimania?
bixonimania by the riverside April 14, 2026
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